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To enhance its educational and cultural offerings, AUC's Distinguished Visiting Professor program brings a number of eminent scholars, writers, and artists to campus for short-term lectureships or workshops. Leading scholars of religion, prominent historians, expert law professors, and world-renowned scientists are among the broad array of distinguished visiting professors who come to AUC each year to teach, conduct research and deliver public lectures. Through these visits, the University ...

Project Fear 2 and Europe for Scotland With less than a week to go to voting at Holyrood the media has been awash with nostalgia as all platforms and mediums beamed out Project Fear 2. Nicola Sturgeon was hounded from studio to studio and a sort of feeding frenzy emerged as papers and programmes tried to out-bid each other in the war against a referendum: “Nicola Sturgeon struggles to answer key questions about Scottish independence” tried the Telegraph, “Independence would result in a ha...

MORE than 170 prominent European writers, artists and cultural figures have called on leaders in Brussels and across the continent to say that an…

MORE than 170 prominent European writers, artists and cultural figures have called on leaders in Brussels and across the continent to say that an…

Jan Assmann: Nationalisms and religion fuse in authoritarian regimes Cultural scientist and Blumenberg professor Assmann sheds light at the Cluster of Excellence in Münster on the changing relationships between religion, culture, and politics from Ancient Egypt to the modern age – Achievements of Ancient Egypt have long been forgotten – “With the EU, primordial religious themes such as peace are returning” – “Authoritarian regimes such as Putin’s Russia, Netanyahu’s Israel, and...

Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor Renowned cultural scientist and Egyptologist working at University of Münster’s Cluster of Excellence on cultural memory in times of digital change – Public evening lecture on 2 February on religion and culture from Ancient Egypt to the modern period Press release from 26 January 2021 © exc The cultural scientist and Egyptologist Jan Assmann is the new Hans Blumenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Münster’s Cluster of...